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What are Cover Orders ? How do they work ?

Modified on: Fri, 16 Nov, 2018 at 12:07 PM

Cover Order

A Cover Order is a market order or limit order that is placed along with a Stop Loss Order. In a Cover Order the buy/sell order is a Market or Limit order that is accompanied with a compulsory Stop Loss order, in a specified range as pre-defined by the system, that cannot be cancelled. As there is a compulsory Stop Loss Order the risk automatically reduces because of which the margin requirement also automatically reduces thereby giving more leverage to client for intra-day trading.

Kindly note that all cover orders (CO) are squared off at 3:20 PM (Cash/Futures) and 11:00 PM /11.30 PM (MCX).

How To Place Cover Order:

For placing cover order add the script in market watch as shown below. For Buy cover order click (Shift+F1) & Sell Cover Order (Shift+F2). The Buy/Sell order will execute at market price / limit price and stop loss can be defined as per the defined stop loss range.

Order Book (View Completed and Stop Loss Pending) :

Once the CO order is placed completed market order or limit order and pending stop loss will be shown in order book (F3). You can verify that it as cover order as product type will be CO for the same. Stop Loss can be modified from the order book by using modify from bottom of the window in the prescribed range only. Also note that against buying CO selling order should not be placed, as it will create fresh position in your account and vice-versa.

Note: If you want to close the position at current market click Exit from the bottom of window. It will be executed completely as partial position cannot be closed in CO.

Admin Position:

You can view overall profit & loss form Admin position (F11) . Select Netwise and click Get positions.

To summarize:

1. Cover Order is purely a market order & limit order with a mandatory stop loss within a pre-defined trigger range that reduces risk.

2. Margin utilized in cover order will be approx 20% of overall margin in NSE Futures/MCX thereby giving more leverage for intraday trading. You will be getting up to 5 times leverage in NSE Futures/MCX and up to 20 times in Equity.

3. Position cannot be executed partially and to book profit pending stop loss has to be Exit at market price from order book (F3)

4. Cover Order cannot be converted to NRML/CNC i.e same cannot be carried to next trading as it is purely an intraday trade.